Troy cocktail lounge The Berlin opening this weekend

The Berlin, a stylish cocktail lounge that is the next venture for busy area restaurateur Matt Baumgartner, opens later this week in the second-floor space above Wolff’s Biergarten in Troy. Baumgartner describes it as a combination of The Pony Barnat his West Sand Lake event venue June Farms, The Olde English Pubin Albany and Soho House, a most excellent private club in Manhattan.

See the drinks menu here. The list of food available for private parties is here, priced for a group of 25. I’m told an a-la-carte menu is being developed for bar patrons that will draw from the wursts-and-burgers fare available from the Wolff’s kitchen downstairs.

Hours starting this week at from 5 p.m. until late Thursday through Saturday. The address is 2 King St., opposite the eastern end of the Green Island Bridge.

The upstairs room was an event space when the first franchise location of Bombers Burrito Bar was open there. After that folded abruptly, in November 2015, the building became the fourth location of Wolff’s on the ground level and upstairs was a separate restaurant called Troy Cantina that Baumgartner shuttered after a year.